The first generation of filmmakers looked at life and made films. The second generation of filmmakers watched the films of the first generation, looked at life and made films. The third generation of filmmakers just watched the films of the first and second generations and made films. The forth generation, which is us, looks neither at life nor really watches the films – we merely go through the catalogues and references, pay homages to the “looks” and base our movies on technical capabilities.

The spin of the Earth in its own axis, as well as its position in relation to its revolvement around the Sun. The time can be ~ around about 2:30pm for example.

Spontaneous attitude of a human being is that of “i don’t want to know about it”. – Fundamental resistance against knowing too much.

I am an eye, a mechanical eye, I the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it, I free myself from today and forever from human immobility. I’m in constant movement, I approach and pull away from objects, I creep under them. I move alongside the running horses’ mouth. I fall and rise with falling and rising bodies.

This is I / Eye the machine, maneuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another, in the most complex combinations. Freed from the boundaries of time and space I coordinate anything in to all points of the universe where-ever I want them to be. My way leads toward a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way, the world unknown to you.

1923 Dziga Vertov